Before starting his work with Mercator, Huw graduated with a BA in Welsh at Aberystwyth University in 2007. He then completed an MA in Study of Religion at Bangor University in 2010, writing on the 20th century Welsh-language missionary periodical Y Cenhadwr. Most recently, he graduated with an MPhil at Aberystwyth University in 2013 for a thesis discussing the critical response to Winnie Parry’s 19th century novel Sioned in the light of the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes.